"Palais de Steff" has arrived and is a work in progress.
So come on in...grab a cocktail... or the nearest available houseboy and make yourself at home...feel free to wander about or just plonk yourself down and stay a while...
Princess says "Hello and Welcome"!...

Saturday, July 2, 2011

High on a Hill is a lonely Goat Turd....

Layeeho-a-layeeho A-lay-heehooo....

Princess was so Excited...So much so that I was almost beside myself in anaticipation...

Word got out tht Princess is as you know quite adept with a bit of old fabric and her trusty Pfaff... Turning rags into wearable ritches...

So imagine my delight when I was recently approached to help in making some costumes for one of the local musical theatre groups

So... I extended my Voluntary hand graciously and discovered they are putting on a production of one of my all time favourite musicals

"The Sound of Music"

Fifty two in the cast each with 2-3 costume changes for each player.

I thought to myself "Would I be making the gowns for the Grand ball scene?

Measuring up Gaylords inside leg? Fashioning a brace of habits for the Nuns choir? Or perhaps I'd be so lucky as to create Fraulein Maria's Wedding Gown ? Heck... I'd even settle for Leisle's fabulous floaty little number for her tryst in the Gazebo with the telegram boy Ralph"

But alas....

I met yesterday evening with the costumier who was busy measuring up sailor suits for length...

Thank you for your comments. Although the actual costumes are yet to "Materialise"... get it?These are just some shots of "Ideas for" that I gleaned from the interwebs... I'm a little miffed at not being offered the ball gowns (You may have gathered) but then I am a little rusty so this might just be the thing to get me motivated again...

Dear Wally

The cast members not wearing Palais De Steff designs, I'm sure will be pea green with envy.

And please.. do forward your address so you might repair your knickers. Although things might be a little tight at present (believe me I know) it seems that your knickers are not... and we cannot have you running about losing your drawers. I have included some knicker elastic along with the lace, in pursuit of this measure...